Recycling is required by Orange County Code. To reduce the amount of garbage in the recycling stream, the Orange County Utilities Solid Waste Division encourages residents to "Think 5" by focusing on the top five recyclable items—plastic, metal, and glass containers, as well as cardboard and paper.

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Think 5

Orange County Recycling Done Right

Recycling is using items that would be thrown into the trash to make new materials. For example, plastic bottles can be recycled into new plastic bottles or even carpet! By encouraging good recycling habits, we can save landfill space, energy, and natural resources like water and trees.

Recycling is important to me
It keeps animals safe and living happily
And now that we have a shortage of paper
Let’s recycle and keep trees safer

When you recycle paper, see what it can make
Cardboard or a whole new piece, covering for your pen mistake
Moving along, you have a glass jar from your favorite jam
Don’t float it down the river till it reaches a dam

You can recycle plastic containers and bottles
When you recycle, you are a real role model
Next, your order from “Amazon” arrives
And now you have a cardboard box waiting outside
Adding more, you’ve got aluminum cans for soup and beans
Recycle them! I’ll help you understand what this means

If recyclable items are what you’ve hoarded
Recycle them and they’ll go to the material recovery factory to get sorted
Then they go to the processing factory to get melted
I really like recycling, I just can’t help it
‘Cause it gets molded into something new at the manufactured plant
So “Recycle!” is what I chant

There are a lot of benefits to recycling,
such as not a lot of garbage and it saves trees
It recycles plastic that could’ve hurt animals
and sea turtles are important to me
So, remember this, recycling rocks!
Always recycle your papers, plastics, cans and cardboard boxes
And all the other recyclable items you get from different brands
And now you’ve got recycling hands!

Tilly Raij
Dommerich Elementary
Grade 4

The Pet Playhouse

Placed outside: a cardboard dog food box, an empty plastic bottle, a yogurt cup, and a large cardboard box.

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